The Foreign Minister of Colombia Álvaro Leyva received on Wednesday the credentials of Félix Plasencia, Venezuelan ambassador to the country, who arrived in the country to continue the process of reestablishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.
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The announcement was made by the Colombian Foreign Ministry on its Twitter account where it accompanied its publication with two photos of the meeting. It is expected that in the next few hours Plasencia will be received by President Gustavo Petro in the same way in which he was tratified the Colombian ambassador Armando Benedetti in Caracas.
The appointment of Félix Plasencia was made by the ruler Nicolás Maduro in a official address on August 11. “I want to announce that former Foreign Minister Félix Plasencia, who was a former ambassador to the People’s Republic of China and who is today president of the International Investment Center of Venezuela, I have appointed him as the next ambassador to the Republic of Colombia,” Maduro said.
Plasencia served as Foreign Minister of Venezuela from August 19, 2021 to May 16, 2022.
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With the accreditation of both ambassadors in the respective countries, diplomatic relations between Colombia and Venezuela are restored since their rupture in 2019 after the government of Iván Duque recognized opposition leader Juan Guaidó as interim president of the neighboring country.
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